Planning application
Picks Farm, Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey, E4 7RA
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Approval of Details Reserved by Conditions 3 Habitat Regulations and 4 Contaminated Land of EPF/2250/25 (Application to determine if Prior Approval is required for a proposed change of use of agricultural buildings to flexible use).
As published by the council, reference EPF/2250/25
Application record
- Reference
- EPF/2250/25
- Type
- Approval of details reserved by a condition
- Status
- Decision Made
- Decision
- Granted As published: Approve
- Received
- 4 Nov 2025
- Validated
- 4 Nov 2025
- Decided
- 12 Aug 2026
- Ward
- Waltham Abbey South and Rural
- Parish
- Waltham Abbey
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- E4 7RA
Site history
Applications at this address on the Epping Forest register
This site has had 3 applications since 2019: 3 approved, 0 refused.
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EPF/2626/19 Granted
Picks Farm Sewardstone Road Waltham Abbey E4 7RA
Certificate of lawful development for a rear dormer.
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EPF/2535/19 Granted
Picks Farm Sewardstone Road Waltham Abbey E4 7RA
Proposed erection of x3 no. rear pitched roof dormers to the existing roof pitch.
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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4 Nov 2025
Received by Epping Forest
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23 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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12 Aug 2026
Decision issued: Approve
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
23 documents on file for this application
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Open the documentsWhat this grant of permission means
Epping Forest granted permission on 12 August 2026, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.
About condition discharge and variation applications
This application deals with conditions on an existing permission, supplying the details a condition requires or asking to vary or remove one, without reopening the permission itself. More in our guide to planning application types.
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